Walsall’s football club has one of the smallest gender pay gaps in the town, new data reveals.
The data, from the Gender Pay Gap service, shows only six companies with a Walsall postcode have a smaller gap between the pay received by an ‘average’ male and female employee.
The League Two football club recorded a median pay gap of under three percent.
All employers in the UK with 250 or more employees are required to report gender pay gap data at the beginning of every April. A ‘median’ gap is calculated by taking the difference between the midpoint of all men’s hourly wages and the equivalent for women.
Walsall’s median pay gap, however, represents a slight growth compared to last year, when it reported a gap of 0%.
The club said: “Due to the nature of the club’s core business, the variance in pay is likely to always continue due to the salaries paid to professional players, all of whom are male.
“However, we will continue to develop and fully promote our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion policies and efforts, to ensure that those individuals with protected characteristics are not marginalised or treated any differently.
“We are fully committed to the EFL Equality Code of Practice.”
Two companies in the area reported a zero percent gap.
Former sponsors of the club Homeserve had the biggest gap in the area at 30.4%.
An earlier version of this story was first published on Kameron Cavanagh’s blog.